From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de>
Cc: huug <huug.at.gmane@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing
Date: 11 Feb 2003 15:53:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3znp2sway.fsf@cicero.benny.turtle-trading.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E18iMag-0000yp-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
Hi all,
Somebody wrote:
> It isn't Windows-specific: Emacs needs it handle any
> case-preserving-but-indifferent file system correctly.
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Are there any other such systems we are trying to support? I don't
> think so.
As I see it, it's not a question of OS but of supported file systems
these days. MacOSX is almost exclusivly installed on HFS+ today.
Many GNU/Linuxers maintain data on FAT volumes. Others mount SMB
volumes from networked Microsoft NT servers. All of these are
case-insensitive, like it or not.
so long, benny
PS: The real complication is non-ASCII characters in filenames. From
my experience this is still a black art on GNU/Linux. This is of
course one of the problems Unix (and POSIX?) tried to avoid with using
case-sensitive file systems in the first place. But that is a
separate problem (an extension of the problem, so to speak).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-11 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-07 5:38 Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-02-07 8:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-07 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-07 15:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-07 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-07 17:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-07 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-07 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-09 12:39 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-09 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-10 4:41 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-02-10 5:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-10 10:03 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-02-10 8:21 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-10 10:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <m2smuxcwba.fsf@primate.xs4all.nl>
2003-02-10 22:39 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-10 22:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-02-11 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-12 8:28 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-12 10:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-12 19:36 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-12 17:50 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-12 22:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-02-14 22:29 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-11 14:53 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl [this message]
2003-02-11 23:02 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-12 13:37 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-02-12 13:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-02-12 14:57 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-02-12 19:40 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-07 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-07 20:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-07 23:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-07 18:31 ` Jason Rumney
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